Wednesday, March 28, 2007 

Oprah selects Cormac McCarthy's `The Road'

Holy crap. This is the news I woke up to this morning. When I was 20 and working in advertising for The Easley Progress, this super hot red-headed editor handed me a copy of Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. "He is better than Faulker, " he said. "Read this." And since I needed conversation starters with my future husband, I read the novel... and that was how I discovered my favorite author of all time.

McCarthy does not give interviews to the press, in fact I've only seen two photos of him at all, but somehow Ms. Oprah talked him into to not only allowing his latest book, The Road, to be her book of the month, but he is also appearing on her show!

This is one of those Jesus moments you hear about in church isn't it.

(addition) Cormac McCarthy's The Road has been awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.